A Book for All Readers: An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private LibrariesSpofford, Ainsworth Rand
Science
A Book for All Readers: An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries
Spofford, Ainsworth Rand
Books; Library science
Names of countries, cities, societies, or other bodies which are
responsible for their publication.
First word (not an article or serial number) of the titles of
periodicals and of anonymous books, the names of whose authors
are not known. And a motto or the designation of a series may be
neglected when it begins a title, and the entry may be made under
the first word of the real title following.
Commentaries accompanying a text, and translations, are to be
entered under the heading of the original work; but commentaries
without the text under the name of the commentator. A book
entitled "Commentary on ...." and containing the text, should be
put under both.
The Bible, or any part of it (including the Apocrypha), in any
language, is to be entered under the word Bible.
The Talmud and Koran (and parts of them) are to be entered under
those words; the sacred books of other religions are to be
entered under the names by which they are generally known;
references to be given from the names of editors, translators,
etc.
The respondent or defender of an academical thesis is to be
considered as the author, unless the work unequivocally appears
to be the work of the _praeses_.
Books having more than one author to be entered under the one
first named in the title, with a reference from each of the
others.
Reports of civil actions are to be entered under the name of the
party to the suit which stands first on the title page. Reports
of crown and criminal proceedings are to be entered under the
name of the defendant. Admiralty proceedings relating to vessels
are to be put under the name of the vessel.
Noblemen are to be entered under their titles, unless the family
name is decidedly better known.
Ecclesiastical dignitaries, unless popes or sovereigns, are to be
entered under their surnames.
Sovereigns (other than Greek or Roman), ruling princes, Oriental
writers, popes, friars, persons canonized, and all other persons
known _only_ by their first name, are to be entered under this
first name.
Married women, and other persons who have changed their names,
are to be put under the last well-known form.
A pseudonym may be used instead of the surname (and only a
reference to the pseudonym made under the surname) when an author
is much more known by his false than by his real name. In case of
doubt, use the real name.
A society is to be entered under the first word, not an article,
of its corporate name, with references from any other name by
which it is known, especially from the name of the place where
its headquarters are established, if it is often called by that
name.
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